Cutting and folding machine



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CUTTING AND FOLDING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4, 1916.

1,337,900, I Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

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//V VE IV TOR A TTORNEY ilNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

CHARLES GUTBERLET, 0F IPHILA'DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUTTING- AND FOLDING MACHINE;

Application filed December 4:, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Crmnnns GUTBERLET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and of Fennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting and Folding Machines, of which-the following is a specification.

This machine belongs to the class of folding and cutting machines in which great precision is required and which work with materials stiffer and thicker than paper. This class of machines is popularly known (though somewhat inaccurately) as ticket machines, because originally used for cutting and folding various forms of tickets. They are however used for. many other forms of products which technically are still called tickets, such as the device illustrated in Figs. 18 and 19 of the accompanydrawing. These machines are in some ways different from paper folding machines of the more usual type dealing with paper folding that do not require so reat exactness the folding r cutting and are not compelled to deal with stiffer materials.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the back of the machine. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the left 'ide. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the right side. i a: is an elevation of the front of the machine. 5 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation on the line a: 00 of Fig. 5 looking toward the right side of the machine. Fig. 7 is a view of the mechanism for operating the card lifter. F ig. 8 is a view of the cams, wheels and levers at the left end of shaft 3. Fig. 9 is a view of a portion of the card f eding device. Figs. 10 and 11 are parts of the regulator for the card lifter. Fig. 12 is a part of the card conveyer. Fig. 13 is a view of the cutting stack from the front showing an actu: 1g mechanism for the rolls. Fig. 14 is a view of the receiving guide. 15 is a view of the card evener. Fig. 16 is a view of the upper guide of the positor. Fig. 17 is a view of a gearin for driving the rollers of the cutting stack positively with each other. 18 is a view of a card and Fig. 19 is a View of a pack of tickets.

The machine, in its best form, has a card lifter that is automatically regulated, an automatic card feeder and an automatic card conveyor, a positor preferably positively acting, a folding knife, a cutting stack and a ticket deliverer. All of these are turned by Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Serial No. 135.061.

automatic devices to keep exact time with each other, so that the cards are placed in s k and kept at a constant level, and are 1 d auton'iatically to the conveyors, carried by them to the positors which place them accurately in the exact place requisite below the folding knife. This in turn folds and delivers the cards to a stack of rollers, certain of which hold the folded card in exact place required, others cut it and others delirer the folded and cut tickets to the receiving guides. These rollers could also aid in maintaining the cutters exactly on the line of separation between the tickets.

The machine operates upon a card which is printed with the matter for a number of tickets. w iich are to be folded and cut autoinatically by the machine, and automatically delivered by it in separate packs of tickets, folded one ticket within. the other, so that a suitable quantity of the packed tickets can be taken from the receiving guide by the attendant and he placed without any handling in the packing box.

This operation requires that large numbers of the tickets should be delivered from the machi.ne,-folded one within the, other, often 100 or more. Each of these tickets has substantial thickness and is usually of smooth faced material. To pass more than a very few of them at most, folded, simultaneously through the cutters would be impossible, especially ause' of the extreme uniformity of the cutting of every ticket always required in this class of work. The cards must t iercfore, after being folded, be passed either in very thin layers or individually through the cutter rolls and the tickets assembled by the machine after the cards are cut, into packs of much larger iuinibers sufficient to fill a box so that the attendant has simply to fill the feeding table and remove the packs to the boxes, all other ork being performed automatically by the machine.

The cards are placed in a pile on the shelf 103. This shelf is supported (see Fig. 2) by chains. ill-l, 10%, extending over wheels 100, 10 10:2, 102, which are actuated by mechanism regulated by the height of the; top of the pile of cards. At the sides of this pile are guides. 148, 1&8. The guides 109, 109. llil at the ends of the pile. The guises 105. 105, lie at the side of the pile and the uides 106, 106, lie above the pile. The guides 105, 106 and 109 are most con 155 and hence make the suckers 151,

veniently carried by a rod 5, set in the head 202 of the standards 2-01. This pile of cards occupies a space above the shelf 103 and for convenience in understanding the device is inclosed by the lines extending above the shelf. 7

The feeder delivers the cards to the conveyer. The feeder has a lifter that catches a card and removes it from the pile and places it in the conveyer. The suckers 151 are secured to pipes 150 'which are connected by elbows 152, pipes 119, T 1 15 and pipe 153 to the chamber 1 1 1 which is connected by flexible pipe 118 to an exhaust. This exhaust isprel'erably arranged to produce a suction while the card is being lifted and delivered to the conveyor, and not to do so when the card has been delivered to the conveyor and the feeder is returning to its position over the pile of cards on shelf 108. This portion of the feeder is secured to the plunger 155, that moves in the guide 58, and is moved by the link 15 1- from the rocking shaft 2. In practice the link 15-1 is pivoted to cam 156 by the pivot 15?. The plunger 158 is guided preferably by the walls of the slot 118 embracing the rod 5 and the shaft 2. Collars as 142, can be placed to hold it in position. The plunger carries the guide 58 and preferably the roller 159. It is raised by the spring 119v and depressed by the cam 156 which is operated by the rocking shaft 2. The shaft 2 will, therefore, lift and lower the plunger 158 and protract and retract the plunger 151, describe the arc of a circle; at one end of this are resting upon the pile of cards and at the other delivering a card to the conveyers. A separator for the cards is provided so that the lifter will not lift more than a single care, consisting of catches 98, 98, holding the edge of the card, and of a depressor 99, between which and the catches 98, (see especially Fig. 5) the suckers will grip the card and will bow it upward and pull it out without pulling out the one ne:-:t below it, from the catches 98, 98. The catches 98, 98, may conveniently be mounted on the bar 99. The depressor 90, may be arranged to be lifted off the card as it is being carried to the conveyer. In practice is done by lifting it from the pile liftand regulating devices. The wheels 100, 100, are mounted on a spindle 111, which is rotated by worm gearing from the shaft 41 (see par ioularly Fig. 7). 108 is a worm carrying sleeve; 10'? is a gear wheel with which the worm meshes which is secured to the spindle 111. On the shaft l: is the ratchet 88. The shaft 1 is turned and the shelf 108 is lifted as the cards are re- .moved from the top of the pile on the shelf 168, at the ends of the swiveler through series of links and arms from the movable steps 97 resting on the top of the pile of cards turns the shaft 1. The movable stops (see particularly Fig. 10) are in the form of rods secured to the arm 95 which is lifted by the cam 91 on the shaft 2. When not lifted by the cam the rods 97 rest on the pile of cards preferably near the suckers'151. The arm 95 is secured to the shaft 6, which is rocked by it either wholly or partly. This shaft 6 carries the arm 83 that is connected pivotally by the link 81 with the cam 86 that carries the pawl 87. This arniS-Sis pulled upward (see Fig. 8) by the spring 82, which is the direct means of rotating the shaft 4. The arm 882 on the rocking shaft 2 carrying the link84 having a slot 141 engaging with the pin 1 10 connecting the link 81 and arm 87 will serve if desired as an additional means of securing the movement of the ratchet wheel 88. It can be dispensed with or can replace the cams 91. The position of arm 83 can be rendered adjustable by having it fit loosely on the shaft 6 and providing an arm. 166 secured to this shaft. A tension spring 881 draws the arm 83 toward the arm 166 and a set screw 89 spaces them apart. A small standard bent over the arm 83 serves very conveniently to carry the spring 881. The depressor 90 can be lifted very readily bythe arm 92 turning on the rod 7. This arm 92 can be lifted by a link 94 attached to arm 93'that is secured to shaft 6 (see Fig. 10). The pins 97 can be adjusted in head 96 by the set screw 167.

The conveyer has a series of shafts 16, 1'7, 18, provided with friction rollers 125, 126', 127, over and by which the cards .are carried. @pposite the rollers 125 are the rollers 890 carried by the shaft 130. Opposite the rollers 126 are the rollers 14: and opposite the rollers 127, are the rollers. 168. The shaft 130, is carried from the rocker shaft 10 by the arms 181, 181, and the rollers carried by it are pressed against the rollers on shaft 16 by the rocking of the shaft 10. The rollers 1 1 and 168 pressed against the rollers 126 and 127 yieldingly and con tinuously. A very convenient way of doing this is to mount each pair of rollers 4: 1, 18, which is pressed down by the spring 12 and positioned by the stud 10. The stud and spring are very conveniently carried bythe bar 11 which is supported by standards 15. The shafts 16, 17 and 18, are positively driven. A series of sprocket wheels 110, 113 and 119, can be connected to the shaft 1 by such suitable chain drives as may be de sired. The guides a? and i8 help'to carry the cards between the wheels of the conveyor and very conveniently may be connect ed to cross bars 16 and 19. The driven shafts 16, 17 and 18 are preferably carried on an inner frame having side pieces 112,

112, in which these shafts are journaled.

The positor, the de ice that places the card in the desired location beneath the folding knife, has a guide into which the card is pushed by the conveyer and an end stop, limiting its forward movement. The card should lie, preferably, so that the width oi the part 01. the card between the slot and rear stop and the width of the part or" the card on the side of slot away from the end stop are unequal. The positor should also adjust the card ace rately laterally, and irevided with a side stop against which t is pushed hv an ad Thetahle is V jlliiu vi. 36, over i" vith n upper guide This guide ed (see Fig. 16) of the olate 35 with --ges ai o 170 (see l? 16) which he table 36. The card is pushed until its end =ests at the inner wall of flange 169. From the table extends the guide 34 1 1 o i anu games 122 are attached to a cross piece 123. The side adguster (see Figs. at and 15) has a pivoted arm 76 the head of which I I, I pushes against the card and pushes it J i) l A 7 i e r i.- n. 1. e sir SLUP L0. This a m is ill i 10111 -*"l.. the (11313 H. o; the iwu. wliicn is 1ul criinieu i oi \VliiCii inclose the gui oi. lever T2 rests against cani Tl which is carried by the revolvin. sl att The locationot' slide 77 on guide 721 can he regulated by the rod Th folding knife is driven positively downward. Tt passes through slot 1T1 in the guide 3:" and slot 172 in table t is carried liy plungers 31. 31, that have slots embracing the shal' These pliingers are lifted lay the 6? and driven down by the cams 30,

.ia; work on the idlers 32 on tl.e plungers i knite holder 33, provided with th .li gs 21 1 attached to the plunger 31, 31 and holds the knife Set. The slots 171. 1??? a plic taii e fl 'e 1 1(28 he told and the re 'ulated accordii knife.

and cutting roller stack cono receiving rollers 26, a 1 them.

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* Vb icli the ntl v forms a sists oi pair of 'kets into cutting rollers 22, irnaled in sliding; 9-32. 233. 23 i,

ournal H The es Jones and henre the pair to varc each other, .92 ,QfllU upon t e card and L A s de of the stack is positively lriven and the other sice may he frictionally driven as indicated in Fig. 4', but the best results are obtained when both sides are positively driven, indicated in Fig. 17. The teeth 173, 174, (see Fig. 17) will not be separated siiliiciently to make the slip between the rollers important as the card or ticket separates them. The first or receiving rollers 20, 26, have in practice milled surfaces, in order to grip firmly the folded card, and they and the folding knife 3d are so placed that the folded card will he posils are placed to avoid contact between the it edges of the tickets and the The pairs of rollers are preierahl i arrai gel so that two pairs will always hitc upon tl e ticket at the same time.

The guide 161 is placed at the delivery' end of the roller stack. The ticket packer is placed to receive each batch of tickets delivered to the guide by the delivery rollers oi the stack. The intern).ittently noving; rollers 11 and 19 receive between them eaelticket and push it individually into the fold of the ticket preceding it; the tickets already packed are leftwith the upper leaf free to spring upward and h nce each SUP- cessive ticket is t 'ly pa ked with its folded edge between t s or" its pred- 0 he leave e;essors: the roller 19, in practice, protriines through a slot in the guide 161 (see F1 9;. is particularly) and is prov nel with l I sets of annular projections 128. 1 9 preterably placed to engage each ti near its i iposite sides. The roller ll also cu he sets of annular projections, 64. opposi e to and resting); agr liist the projections 1928, The roller ll is yichjlingly iiated toward oiirnaled in and chain driven the roller l5). the arms.

in practie 165.

seat on a port leaning into the to: 11." and is operated from the rotating shaft l )y the cam lever 58 and link lVhen the valve 116 is lifted from its s at no suction is transmitter. to the suckers The drivin. ii t ie i moving parts of thi nia ii .chine is positive in order to secure its proper tiinir i tice I use main shaft 1, from which the various instriinieirlaalities l8SCl1l Q( l above stack are all driven by gearil t;

are inediately or continuously rot the shaft 1 pre and a -onti lectet, in orac'ic the or indirectly to or I The shaft 3 drives the r link 12 whirh sonnets the disk 57. From the feeding device the ca: feeders are driven. The care 156 being the 21-11118 lifting the Q'YY 1 immediately dines. The v v .12 ting parts are (2.1 it en iloin it in the convey r. Tee ro driven from shaft 3 v conveniently won. the link 13%, the

which, inclose the I nected to the 139 that its This shaft 13 roe shaft 10.

cam 135 hy the spring: lies the bite of the parts 125 d nd yielding. The are 1 to the pinion 1&7 on the the roller shaft 130 will he li lle; sheft 16 while the feeder is rd above it. The shape of the the speed of the rollers 16, 1'? it guleted so that the card vill and conveyed by the conveyor t before the lznite 3i dri the cam 30. 'ter is arra. the

card piished into the stoppin nges 169 and knife 3% reaches cord. the cams 135, and 71 relatively other on the shaf 3 is such s to insl-te their aetienstollowat t? :ecui ll ihe com 56 t iat controls the suction l shaft 3, so that the valve 116 is los d when the suckers 151 httingthe c.-v and opened at other times. The short 1s driven means of th ratchet 61 and pewl 64in attached to the lon er 9.111162. The arm 63 se ured to the shaft 3 di'ves tile arm 62 through the link 60. The angular position of the arm 63 on the shaft 3 should he ranged so that the circumferential the rings 65 will, at'the time reach them the rollers he equ circumferential speed 0'? the 111 can adva itogeously increase monien v after biting the tickets and quickly oecrea. e in speed. 7

The rollers of the folding;

\im 8 in order to give them each the angular velocity. (See Figs. 4.: and 13.)

The shaft 8 is provided with o eir wheel 39 that meshes with the gear wheel which meshes with gear wheels and 15 on the idler shafts 13 and 14 which mesh with the t 1 01 h gear wheels 1 a iiven from sh it 1 in any convenient man- The rain of theinachlne is convenie a shafts and litter and feeder and other ecaeo. at the back the machine.

operation of the machine is as fol- F511 1 M in e 5. tr ised until the top an v y on tie feeding level;

V started and the card feeding ts the cards singly from the pile s them into the conveyer whi ch to positor, where each card the tion for the folling ely on the desired of this knife drives slot 'Z2 in the tahle a 27. wiere it is out along the lines 12 6; 176 c i painting the card 177, 1'7? into the t'clzets 8 178, which it passes verv rollers 2 1- and 28, which t Se then seived by the bite of the and 19 These rollers push the to the peers gradually move gull-e 161, untilthe pack is big to he telren up by the operator and The form or" the pack is The tickets 178 have resting on the table the ing upward, The space between the ripper ane lower toldot each J rec a the 1? of the following ticket and it desiret, a strip 179 can be cut at eachend of t e card and discharged through chute 39.

ll clain1 L a machine for folding cards and cuttin the folded cards into tickets, the

conihiiietion with a card feeding device a positor provided with an end stop, a side stop and a side adjnster, a folding loiire, a folding and cutting stacle )lClKlK'LQ device having its ticket a ticket pushing; mechanism 1 cated to he free from of the'leaves of all the tickets packed and driving forward h i I, each hatchet tickets delivered hv the :toldin and cutting stack and pushe each ticket individually into the fold the ticket preceding it.

Tn a machine for folding cards and the folded cards into tickets the Jination with a feeding device, of a series of positively driven conveying rollers a sei'es oi? tensionally mounted opposing rollert, o positing dole having upper 2.. The shaft 8 is knife a folding 7 C) and lower guides for the card, an end side stop and a side adjuster, a and cuttin stack of a pair of nac packer consisting and a platforr. or nearly coincident near the plane forming a common packing rollers.

3. ill machine for folding ards and cutting the folded cards into ti-ketii the feeding device, a oo combination with a tivcly acting conveyor, a positor provided with an end stop, a side stop and side adjuster, a folding knife, cutting roller stack havin a pair of receiving rollers, a pair of cutter rollers having card gripping surfaces and annular cutters and-a pair of delivery rollers, and a ticket packing device havin a platform for the tickets and pushing each ticket individually into the fold of the ticket preceding it.

at. In a machine for folding cards and cutting the folded cards into tickets, in combination with a feeding device, a posit ely acting card conveyer, a positor provided with an end stop, side stop and a side adjuster, a folding knife, a cutting roller stack having a pair of receiving rollers, a pair of cutter roll rs, that have grippin surfaces and annular cutters and a pair of packing rollers, of a ticket packing device acting upon the tickets individually after they have passed through the folding and cutting stack, and having a curved guide for the tickets to which the plane forming a common tangent to the packing rollers is substantially tangent.

in a machine for folding cards and cutting them into tickets, the combination of a card conveyor, the slottec table to re ceive the card to be folded and cut, a positor having end stop for the card, the distance between the slot and the end stop being unequal to h half of the card, a side stop and a positively acting side adjuster bring ing the side card against the stop, a stack of rollers containing a pair of f ed rollers and a pair of cutter rollers, having annular knives, a curved receiving guide for the tickets at the discharge end of the stack an intermittently acting packing roller, placed at a distance from the discharge end of the stack substantially equal to the length of the card and timed to begin its movement simultaneously with the delivery to it of the card from the folding and cutting stack.

6. In a machine for folding cards and cutting tne folded cards into tickets, the combination with the positively cting card feeding device, the positor having an end stop, a side stop and a side adjuster, and the folding knife of a stack of folding and cutting rollers, having a pair of receiving rollers with frictional rolling surfaces, a pair of cutting rollers with frictional roller and y while using by the annular cutpair or delivery rollers and a oiving the tickets indipositively acting card the pcsitor having an end =-n l side adjuster, and the i stack of folding and cutg a pair of receiving onal rolling surfaces, a .tting rollers with frictional roller ces and annular cutters, the frictional su aces holding the folded card elashile being cut by the annular cutters, and a pair of delivery rollers, the rollers each nair being yieldingly impelled toeh i, ther and a packing device res tickets individually and pushing cket into the fold of the ticket preced- Hz 0 c;

n a machine for folding cards and the folded cards into tickets, the

combine ion with the positively acting card feeding device, the positor having an end stop, side stop and a side adjuster, and the folding knife, of a stack of folding and cutting rollers, having a pair of receiving with frictional rolling surfaces, a i of cutting rollers with frictional roller nd annular cutters, the frictional ces holding the folded ard elaswhile bei g cut by the annular cutand a pa of delivery rollers, each pair of rollers being set nearerto the next pair ard and a packing 1 I :1 than the width ioloing roller stack, of pair of intermittly operated. rollers, and ticket guide u tickets as discharged.

JG. ln a cutting and folding i s n combination with a cutting and 7 ing roller stack, of a pair of intermittentiy operated rollers, a ticket guide running to the bite of the packing rollers at their discharge side and receiving the tickets as discharged, positor for the tickets and folding knife positively actuated toward the roller stack.

11. In a cutting and folding machine for tickets in combination with a cutting and folding roll r stack, of a pair of intermittently operated rollers, a ticket guide running to the bit of the packing rollers at their discharge side and receiving the tickets machine for kets individually and as discharged, a positor, card conveyers con veying the cards to the posltor, a folding knife positively driven toward the said cards ant bending and forcing the same into the bite of the said cutting and folding roller stack, said knife being timed to act upon each card individualy after the same has been brought to the positor.

12. In a cutting and folding machine for tickets in combination with a cutting and folding roller stack, of a pair of intermittently operated rollers, a ticket guide running to the bite of the packing rollers at their discharge side and receiving the tickets as discharged, apositor, a card con'v'eyer a 15 folding knife driven positlvely downward toward the bite of the roller stack, said positor having a slot therein parallel with and above the bite of the folding stack, the Walls of saldslot being sufiiciently close together 20 In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. 25

CHARLES GUTBERLET. 

